The enduring lesson of Mizoram is not that the state won and the insurgents lost. It is that both sides eventually found a political space in which neither needed to win everything. That is the essence of accommodation and perhaps the most enduring lesson Lal Thanhawla’s life offers India.
The Taliban, therefore, is not challenging whether Islam should shape women’s rights. Both the OIC and the Taliban begin from that premise. The disagreement is over what Islamic rights mean and, more importantly, who has the authority to define them.
As of January this year, at least 296 Bangladeshis have died in border areas over the past decade, as India’s Border Security Forces (BSF) pushes “illegal Bangladeshis” across the border in the dead of night.
It is true that only a handful of newspapers have the resources and persistence to pursue big stories of the kind that came alive in the EC exposé. Nevertheless, to the extent that it inspires others to pursue even smaller news stories with steadfastness this could potentially redeem the otherwise sordid state of affairs in the Indian media.
A doctor in Pakistan’s Sindh province, who unearthed the sensational HIV outbreak among children in a sleepy, remote town in 2019, says he is not on the good books of the authorities for reporting the epidemic and exposing the malpractices of some medicos
April 18 is observed as International Day for Monuments and Sites. It is also referred to as World Heritage Day
In a show of its bowling prowess, Pakistan has become the first team in Twenty20 International cricket to claim 1000 wickets
Eminent Assamese singer Vitali Das passed away on Wednesday evening. She succumbed to COVID-19 at the Kalapahar COVID-19 hospital in Guwahati
In the birth centenary year of Indian cinematic great Satyajit Ray, the maestro’s work will be revisited again and again by admirers and critics
Iconic Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died on Wednesday
Young musician Abdullah Siddiqui has become the latest Pakistani to make it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list, Tribune reported
Miss Universe Bangladesh Tangia Zaman Methila will not participate in Miss Universe 2020 pageant in USA in May due to the Covid 19 induced lockdown and travel restrictions in her country, Dhaka Tribune reported
Sri Lankan cricket legend and Sunrisers Hyderabad spin coach Muttiah Muralitharan has been released from hospital after undergoing a successful coronary angioplasty at a Chennai private hospital
For the first time in the history of the police in Pakistan’s Sindh province, a Hindu woman will join the force as a high-ranking officer, The News reported
Former Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who is in India for the Indian Premier League (IPL), was admitted to a hospital in Chennai for angioplasty on Sunday
When India was grappling with the Covid-19 crest in mid-2020, an ancient treasure - about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE - was quietly catapulted into the 'future world history', but the epochal event went virtually unnoticed in the country
Opposition parties in Pakistan came hard on the government for inking a deal last year with the Tareek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a radical Islamist group responsible for recent violent protests, reported Dawn
Legendary Bangladesh actress Sarah Begum Kabori, who also starred in famed Indian filmmaker Ritwak Ghatak’s masterpiece Titas Ekti Nadir Naam, has died of COVID-19 in a state-run hospital in Dhaka, bdnews24.com reported
Pakistan has indicated that behind-the-scenes talks were under way with India, but said Kashmir remained central to any meaningful engagement with India, Dawn reported
